Senior Platform Engineer

At Anaplan, we are looking for a strong Senior Platform Engineer to join our team in Ottawa, Canada as a member of a global engineering organization across the US, UK, Israel, and India.

Are you a creative problem solver who can both give and receive feedback? Do you lead with inclusion, collaboration, and openness? Do you have strong experience with high-scale B2B and B2C platforms?

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be crafting and helping build the next generation of the Anaplan Platform. You’re comfortable with both full-stack systems design for the hybrid cloud as well as hands-on distributed systems programming with extensive knowledge of JVM and Linux internals.

This role is an immediate full-time position. If you are ready to roll up your sleeves and seek unique problems that no one is solving in the tech space yet, keep reading.

Your Impact

• Design and implement highly scalable distributed systems and shared services infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment using Java11, Kotlin, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Use data-driven approaches to measure the quality of our platform and be a strong enthusiast for security and observability.
• Implement code to the desired specification following the standard methodologies, including tests (TDD) and documentation.
• Serving as a senior member of the team and ensuring architecture and design are at its best.
• Mentor engineering team members.
• Contribute intellectual property through patent generation.
• Apply your judgment to know what to defer, and what problem needs to be solved now, with a pragmatic, business-oriented approach to evolving solutions over time.
• Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your expertise.

Your Qualifications

• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience as a platform engineer
• Java and Spring (Java 11+)
• Distributed Systems and programming techniques
• Relational and Distributed Database management systems
• Big Data, ETL/ELT, large-scale data processing like Spark, Databricks
• Experience with building and maintaining a SaaS product at scale
• Experience working with containers and container-orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Monitoring and metrics infrastructure (Grafana, Prometheus, SignalFx)
• Experience with Public Cloud (e.g. AWS / GCP/ Azure).
• Monitoring and metrics infrastructure (Prometheus, ELK, SignalFx).

Technologies you'll work with:

• Programming languages: Java11, Kotlin, Python, Jupyter Notebook
• Persistence: MySQL, CRDB, Redis
• Container and Orchestration: Kubernetes/Docker
• Public cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure
• CI/CD/Build/Deploy: GitHub, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, Harness, Artifactory
• Telemetry: Grafana, SignalFx, Splunk, Prometheus

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